Visit to the Doctor.

Doctor diagnosed that my coughing is due to a sensitive nose. He explained that nose is like a filter to the lungs and blocks all the dirt and dust. When there's too much dust, it overwork and will produce mucus to get rid of them and my coughing may be due to the mucus in my airway that I had to cough them out.

He gave me a nasal spray and some medicine. It really caused me a bomb, about $54. Doctor told me that it will be an on-going thing and I've to rely on the spray to prevent it from coming back.

First day is not too bad, better than the passed few weeks.

I hope my condition will continue to improve. :)

Looking for motivation, feeling tired.

Had been studying for the past few days, I've studied all my subjects for at least once. Looking at them for the 2nd time is really torturing, as everything is the same and felt so “er xin”; really gross/sick.

Sat for my 3rd paper, 2 more to go and I really can't wait for exams to be over. Really very very tired and can't seems to concentrate.

Coughing don't seems to improve and planning to visit doctor tomorrow. Its been 4 weeks and I’m still coughing. But it’s not the worst nor the longest that I’ve been coughing. Prior my NS days, I coughed for about a year, even seen specialist from SGH for about 3 mths and suddenly recovered. I don’t think its flu as the medicine given by the doctor would have cured it. Based on Dr Lim (me), I think its due to the irritation to my airway which causes the endless mucus that caused me to cough; like I had choke on several occasions. The mucus is so slimy that its like glue. (this is really "er xin")

I hope the doctor is able to give me the right medicine to put a stop to my misery.

Looking for motivation for my studies.

Sidetrack: 1 more person is trying to set me up for a date. Eligible or cannot make it?

I’m taking it very positively. Haha…

Being a KIASU kid.

This sem, I started studying very very early.

Now I've even start revising on my last paper even my first paper haven't even started. I'm pretty amazing with myself this sem. Think that is the power for being focus.

Just got back from supper and bowling. Its a really good session to take a break as life is always about balance.

11 more days to freedom (3rd Dec). Final paper, its also Ethan's birthday; Don't think will have time to bring him out to get present. Maybe can do it after his birthday where I have till 14th as I'll be attending SAP course on 15th onwards.

This holiday will be a pack one. 4 more papers and 2 more semester to go...

Time flies. . .

A bad start.

Sat for my first paper.

Didn't have time to finish. As I face difficulty during the calculation qns :(

rushed thro the qns on case study.

In conclusion, my result will be base on 65 instead of 100, as didn't do well in explaining the case study; 25 marks and 10marks on the explanation of the calculation which i didn't have time to complete.

Finally went to see doctor @ YIH after Wei Ping warn me that constant coughing may develop pneumonia. With him scaring me, I overcome my laziness to drag myself to visit the doctor before it gets worst.

1 down, 4 more to go...
More mugging needs to be done.

I hate the feeling of knowing shit is going to happen yet there's nothing I can do.

Sometimes ppl just need to learn through their own experiences. There's nothing much other ppl can do. And knowing that those close to u have to go through this suffering is a torture.

Nothing I can do...

How to empower others?

Exams is getting near and time is tight.

Got to recover from cough and flu. Lots of reading for me to catch up. Got to focus and give everything I have.

An end is a new beginning. . .

Yesterday, I have submitted my last assignment for this semester and did my final presentation. So in all for this semester, I had completed a total of 14 assignments and 7 presentations. Although the result may not be ideal for all the assignments but I can loudly and proudly proclaimed that I’ve did my best.

Initially I have the idea that I will have sometime to take a short break before I start mugging for my exams, but during a conversation with Andrew, I had a wake up call. Andrew was sharing with the gang that he has to start revision this week and every module has less than 3 days to prepare, that was on Monday. I did my maths and plan on Monday night and found myself in similar situation. Haiz…

However, I took a break yesterday. And I finally went to buy a new “clothes” for my “xiao bai” (white iPhone). Spent about 45 mins in Funan Center and $45, I feel it’s a good buy and its utterly dashing. Haha…

For the past week, I had been coughing badly and flu. Its really bad, as looking at my schedule, I could not afford any wastage of time.

Today marks a new start, the final 100 meters to the finish line. I’ve ran hard for the entire semester and it’s the final 3 weeks. I cannot let my guard down and slack.

Chiong ahh…

19th Nov - Managerial Planning and Control
26th Nov - E-Commerce: B2C Applications
27th Nov - IS Project Management
1st Dec - E-Commerce Business Models
3rd Dec - Computer Networks I

Life is not a sprint, it’s a marathon.

3 projects submission in a row...

It’s a really happening week and I am so happy that every thing turned out well in the end. I was struggling with my networking project from sun till Monday morning; struggle all the way till 8am. It was really tough as PS was doing it and I was just telling him where the error could be (debugging). There are limited things I can do as I was trying to understand his codes. And I feel damn bad again for not helping much again… Slept for a few hours before heading to school for…. Hmm…. My mind is failing again. Yah. For my E-Commerce assignment meeting, it was scheduled to be 2.30pm and I was late for it.

I had brunch while discussing the project. There are some changed required on my part and did the presentation slides. The presentation was on tues. Following, I had another project meeting which is for 4260, E-Commerce Biz Model; that was due on wed. Work till quite late for the presentation and 4260’s assignment.

Tues: Attended Lecture and headed for 4264 presentation at 12pm. Surprisingly to me it’s a good presentation. Though, the presentation was short, but we had the gist covered. There was also some qns thrown to us but think we took care of them quite well. Also my lecturer Sharon didn’t ask any qns. Following that, I skipped my Networking lecture, to work on 4260 report which was due the following day. We worked till 6am in the morning. Wow, it’s the first time this year that I stayed in school. I ended up sleeping at the basement where there’s sofa outside DR 3 in COM1. It’s a dark corner till the cleaning auntie turn on the lights at abt 8plus to do her usual cleaning. I turn off the light when she left.

Wed: A while later near 9.30, she came back and on the lights again. Sad… there goes my sleep. Went to wash up and headed to have breakie. The bee hoon I bought was really yucky… It’s like rubber bands; maybe it is due to my lack of sleep that everything tastes weird that day. Headed to my accounting tutorial, the presentation by the groups was really interesting. With a couple of yawns, I breeze through the class. Headed to do the final touch up of the report and had it printed for submission. My 4260 lecture was really a tough one, by this time, the Z monster was stronger than the one I win over in the morning. We exchanged a few blows and I was knocked out for a few time, but in the end, I survived. Part of the reason that I won was due to my hungry tummy. It served as a human alarm clock waking me up every now and then. I was really dead tired and super hungry, head straight to the canteen to have lunch? Hmm… a meal at 4plus is ??? Dunno but I enjoy putting food into my starving tummy. The group initiated to stay back to work on the presentation slides. Haiz… I’m the only one who didn’t go home, why they don’t let me off? But thinking back, I was super KS when I was year 2, focusing on the nitty gritty stuff and failed to focus on the big picture. That’s part of the reason that I didn’t do well in yr 2. So I struggle to keep myself awake to finish my slide before the group let me go. Luckily, Mummy called me early and offer to buy dinner for me. I headed home, had a nice shower and enjoyed my dinner of bee hoon and porridge totally. Had a little chat with mom and headed to bed at 9.

Today: Shockingly woke up at 8.30 in the morning. Despite to ask mummy to wake me up, wanted to attempt on my networking tutorial and check through my presentation slides. I ended up rushing for class, but the funny thingy is that I met 2 person on my way to school; Mike and Peiling, its nice to see friendly faces during the journey. Had presentation for 4260 and it turned out better than I’ve expected. Went back to COM1 to meet the gang and found out that I had to redo my WBS for 4254 (IS Project Implementation). As I was doing it, the entire team was looking at me and didn’t know what was going on. After dinner and discussion, I back at home. Think this is the happiest day, as I’ve managed to overcome all the adversity and did my best.

Life is beaming with hope. Something I have not felt till this sem started.

Busy busy week. . .

Last week was a really hectic week. The entire week just zoomed past without me knowing it. Times really flies when u are packed with loads and loads of things, especially with 3 assignments due this week and their presentation too.

I’m indeed fortunate to have PS as my grp mate. This time, he is shouldering the 2105 assignment again, leaving me to feel very guilty again. This time, I started working on it much earlier than the last assignments. I was just overwhelmed by other assignments that I don’t have time to continue till last wed. Even till now, I’ve just redo my report on online collaborative shopping for the 3rd time.

I’m still behind for another report which will be due on wed. That proj is another major worry for me as all my grp mates are busy with their assignments and has not really started writing till sat. We met up on sat, suppose to be 8am but everyone turn up only 9 plus, guess it was the rain that caused everyone to overslept. Guess I shouldn’t have struggle that hard to force myself out of bed; credits also goes to my mum who I left a notice for her to wake me up. Sat is also a day that I was back in school in less than 9 hrs.

The interesting thingy is that friends who I made during my accounting class are always in school too. I have bumped into them for 2 nites, Thursday at 10plus and Saturday at 9plus. I thought that only I didn’t have a life; guess I was wrong, it’s more of like NUS students don’t really have a life. Haha…

Today I almost didn’t make it for district leader-basic training course, as I should be doing my 2105. I spoke to my Chapter leader yesterday and he understands that my assignments should come first. However, the next training will only be in Feb or March. This will means that I will not be appointed as leader this mth. Thanks to mummy, who woke me up and urge me to attend the training. Her reason is very simple, if I don’t attend the training, I can’t be appointed and it will mean that it will screw up the plans of others. So I decided to attend but left before the training ended. This training is rather basic; actually it’s good for those who are rather new to the organisation. I’m not suggesting that I’m arrogant or very knowledgable, but this shows the importance of studying.

As I was talking to mummy over dinner abt the training course, she told me that not many ppl actually study gosho, new human revolution, or human revolution. In fact, not many ppl even read CL. Sound so true, cos I was one of them that can’t find time to read, even now it a constant struggle for me to find time to read. Reading is so impt, it is thro reading and discussion that I had gained realisation in Melbourne.

I want to continue to have that realisation in Singapore too.